October 23, 2024 | CPKC, CSX, Headlines, Mexico, STB
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, October 22, 2024) A new CSX and Canadian Pacific Kansas City interchange will connect shippers to Mexico, Texas and the Southeast U.S., according to an Oct. 17 press release. The two railroads received approval from the Surface...
October 17, 2024 | CSX, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: CSX press release, October 16, 2024) CSX Corp. today announced third quarter 2024 operating income of $1.35 billion compared to $1.27 billion in the prior year period. Net earnings were $894 million, or $0.46 per diluted share, compared to $828 million, or...
October 7, 2024 | Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety
(Source: Trains.com, October 2, 2024) A New Jersey state senate committee has approved a bill that would require two-person crews for freight trains and set a maximum length of 8,500 feet for “dangerous hazardous trains.” Full story: Trains.com
October 7, 2024 | Derailment, Headlines, NS, NTSB, Train Length
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 3, 2024) The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of a March 2023 train derailment of a Norfolk Southern Railway train in Alabama was the combination of the coupling together of two...
October 1, 2024 | CSX, Headlines, Weather
(Source: Trains.com, September 28, 2024) CSX Transportation’s ex-Clinchfield Railroad mainline has seen devastating impacts from Hurricane Helene’s once-in-a-generation flood. It is still too early to determine the full extent of damages, but photos along the famed...
September 26, 2024 | Headlines, Railroad Retirement
(Source: Railroad Retirement Board press release, September 4, 2024) As required by law, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) submits annual financial reports and triennial actuarial valuations to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement system,...
September 26, 2024 | Headlines, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 19, 2024) As BNSF Railway, CSX, and Norfolk Southern continue to sign tentative contract agreements with their labor unions well in advance of the start of national negotiations, one U.S. Class I railroad has been conspicuously absent:...
September 26, 2024 | CSX, Fatigue, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Trains.com, September 24, 2024) The probable cause of a fatal accident involving a conductor trainee in CSX’s yard in Cumberland, Md., last summer was the train’s movement through an unidentified and unmitigated close clearance location, the National...
September 26, 2024 | BNSF, Headlines, Shippers, STB, UP
(Source: Trains.com, September 25, 2024) With a dockworkers strike looming at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, Surface Transportation Board Chairman Robert E. Primus has asked BNSF Railway and Union Pacific to provide regulators with information on how they will...
September 26, 2024 | CN, CPKC, CSX, DOL, DOT, Headlines, Paid Sick Leave
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, September 25, 2024) U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Department of Labor Acting Secretary Julie Su today sent letters to the CEOs of three Class I freight railroads – CPKC, CN, and CSX –...
